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Heinrich Harrer ( German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian SS sergeant, mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, and geographer. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938.
Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, a swashbuckling explorer who told of his magical life of conquering the world's highest peaks and tutoring the young Dalai Lama when Tibet seemed as exotic as Mars, only...
Jul 3, 2023 · A Lasting Friendship: A Film of His Holiness, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer, in Hüttenberg, Austria, 1992. For more infor...
Sep 30, 1997 · In 1939, a young climber named Heinrich Harrer, who had achieved fame for being a member of the first team to scale the north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, traveled to India on a climbing...
While Heinrich Harrer held the rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, he was a world renowned mountaineer and on expedition in the Indian Himalayas when he and his group were arrested by British forces at the outbreak of World War II. With his escape to Tibet (where he stayed until 1951) he never saw active combat.
Jan 8, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai Lama, has...
Jan 14, 2006 · Austrian mountaineering legend Heinrich Harrer is dead at 93. He was a pioneering climber, an Olympic skier, a tutor to the Dalai Lama... and a member of Hitler's SS.
Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who befriended the young Dalai Lama and was portrayed by actor Brad Pitt in the film “Seven Years in Tibet,” has died. He was 93. Harrer...
Aug 20, 2009 · In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was...
Jan 19, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer and explorer, died on January 7th, aged 93. Jan 19th 2006 |. Keystone. WHEN Heinrich Harrer gazed for the first time on Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, in 1946, he...
